TITLE: Installing Source Specific Multicast extension to NS-2.27 and NS-2.28

AUTHOR: Tiago Camilo 

DATE: March 2005

ABSTRACT:

  These instructions describe how to install the code necessary for simulating
  Source Specific Multicast [2] environments in the Network Simulator, version 2.27
  and 2.28, distributed by the Information Sciences Institute at the USC School 
  of Engineering [1]. 


QUICK AND DIRTY INSTALLATION:

  Download ssm-ns-extension.tar.gz.

  A script has been written to automatically patch the ns-2.27 and ns-2.28. That 
  script is called "patch_script.sh", and must be run from the ssm-ns-extension.tar.gz/
  directory, which in turn must be located in the same directory that has the
  ns-allinone-2.27 [ns-allinone-2.27] directory.  So here's the procedure:

    tar -xzvf ns-allinone-2.27.tgz [or tar -xzvf ns-allinone-2.28.tgz]
    tar -xzvf ssm-ns-extension.tar.gz
    cd ssm-ns-extension/
    ./patch_script.sh
    cd ../ns-allinone-2.27/ [or ns-allinone-2.28/]
    ./install


REFERENCES:

[1] The Network Simulator - ns-2, http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
[2] Bhattacharyya, S., Sprint, Ed., An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM),
    RFC 3569, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3569.txt;